Engineer I - Product (New Product Introduction)

About the role

Microchip’s FPGA Business Unit (formerly Actel, with a 35+ year uninterrupted legacy of providing programmable logic solutions) is one of the largest and most profitable BUs inside Microchip. We have revolutionized the FPGA industry with the industry’s most awarded FPGA families—the PolarFire FPGA family and the first RISC-V based PolarFire SoC—delivering class-leading power efficiency, reliability, and security. With this portfolio, we have enabled commercial applications like the world’s most innovative AI-enabled embedded vision and smart automation products, the world’s most secure and reliable 5G communications networks, as well as the world’s most sophisticated aerospace products that have delivered payloads to Mars and beyond.

If you are looking to be a part of a team that is transforming the world of low power compute while delivering exceptional top-line growth rates, you will be challenged to find a better place to contribute, grow your career, and learn to deliver truly remarkable solutions. The FPGA BU is looking for a talented, passionate, and creative Product Engineering Technical Program Manager to join our new product development team. The candidate will support the pre-production rollout of new products. This cross-functional role will provide opportunities to interact with and support many product rollout players including Test Engineering, Package Engineering, Yield Enhancement, Engineering Planners, Qualification Engineers, Quality, Marketing, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate early builds for engineering in support of validation
• Manage inventory and coordinate Early Sample (ES) and pre-production (PP) builds in support of family rollout, stocking plans, and pre-production forecast
• Monitor package test yields through statistical analysis
• Work on enhancements to meet test goal targets
• Manage production holds to enable customer shipments and revenue
• Develop scripts to monitor yields, track builds, and identify bottlenecks. Report status to rollout team

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science. Master’s degree preferred
• 0 - 1+ years of experience working in Product engineering, product planning, or program management
• Hands-on experience with data management tools and languages like KLA and JMP
• Knowledge of solid-state physics and microelectronics is required
• Skilled with scripting languages like TCL/PERL/Python, C and C++, and Visual Basic
• Team player with excellent communication skills
• Result-driven, methodical, and organized

Travel Time: 0% - 25%

Physical Requirements: 70% Sitting, 15% Walking, 15% Standing, usual business hours

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position, which could be performed in the US, is $70,304 - $143,000. Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills, and experience. Microchip offers a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry, consisting of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments.

Benefits

• Health benefits beginning day one
• Retirement savings plans
• Industry-leading ESPP program with a 2-year look-back feature

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